Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War

London: Verso 2006

ISBN 9781844670314

’An account of world politics since September 11, 2001,’ collaboratively written by a very activist group of writers, academics, and artists from the Bay Area in San Francisco known as Retort. See in particular, ‘The State, The Spectacle, and September 11’ and ‘Modernity and Terror.’

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